The region lock is honestly the single biggest thing stopping me from getting a 3DS. About half the games I'm interested in for 3DS don't look like they'll ever be localized, but for the RPGs and stuff that do get localized I would rather play in English. And I don't want to have to buy two systems (people think the Vita is expensive...), so I just say 'fuck it' and don't buy any. It's not like there's a shortage of games for me to play at the moment...I should work on my backlog.

Hey, I've been defending Dragon Age 2 from the start, though sometimes it feels like I'm the only one. There are definitely some aspects of it that are rushed (like the constant reuse of the same couple of dungeons maps, that's just inexcusable), but for the most part I really like what it was trying to do. It's a very political story, which is a good point in my book. I actually like political stories. And I like how they focused on showing how a given area and characters changed over time, which is a nice change of pace from most RPGs.

Unfortunately it did start to piss me off a bit in the endgame because

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Basically you're forced to make a choice between the two factions, but by they [i]both[/i] pull stupid bullshit at the end that made me not want to support either...where was the "let them kill each other, I'm outta here" option.

While Clover made a lot of games that were well-received critically, it's a fact that they didn't sell. They were not profitable. I know it's popular to hate on Capcom, but I think anyone would have shut them down. This isn't a charity.

Speaking of Fate stuff I just got my Unlimited Blade Works blu-ray. Good film. I like that route better than the one in the TV series.

Really? Might wanna go watch that soon then. I enjoyed the anime series a lot.

Never bothered with Fate/Zero though, maybe after the movie that changes.

Definitely check out Unlimited Blade Works. It's not exactly a rehash, remember that FSN was originally a visual novel so there are different routes through it. The TV series covered one of them and UBW covers a different one.

And yeah, I've already said it in this thread but definitely check out Fate/Zero. Between Fate/Zero, FSN TV, and UBW, Fate/Zero is my favorite, followed by UBW, and FSN TV is last.

Of course these aren't new figures and they're all sold out, so it doesn't really matter. Japan is really good at the whole artificial scarcity thing...seems like everything in the figure world is a limited edition.

I never got familiar with the Fate stuff.... I was always under the impression it was more "Pokemon" and less "Fantasy" (not that there is a problem with that) and just sort of turned a blind eye to it..... been meaning to check it out though......

I was going to respond to this earlier but I was just flabbergasted. The Fate series is nothing like Pokemon...

Speaking of Fate stuff I just got my Unlimited Blade Works blu-ray. Good film. I like that route better than the one in the TV series.